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| Mike Wamser | NY |
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| Michael Schleicher | MN |
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| Pamela Fuller | NY |
This plan makes the most sense to me. I don't like the multi-faceted, convoluted plans being proposed by some states and many candidates. I believe they are taking this approach because they feel that they will be most palatable politically. I think that if the public is educated, and if the correlation between this proposed program and current, functional programs, particularly Medicare, is emphasized, we will be able to garner enough support for this proposed program. Besides the fact that health care coverage should be available for all, without breaking the budgets of lower and middle income people, private industry must be removed from this process so we can be competitive in the global market, and so workers can more clearly see what their compensation packages are. Also, the new system will be more fair to self-employed, small entrepreneurs, and will encourage entry into the marketplace of more small businesses.
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| Randall Pederson | MI |
America is the only industrialized nation in the world that does not have universal health care. Our citizens our dying because insurance companies are greedy and denying claims or charging outrageous premiums. Please pass HR 676.
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| Rolanda Chaney | PA |
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| William Bastian | FL |
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| anthony avila | CA |
i believe this Prsident does not represent me and the needs of this Country. I hope we can all get together and vote for a good positive President so we can see some changes happen for the better of this country and world. sincerely, Anthony
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| Michelle Yocum | IL |
For such a super power of the world the United States needs to begin looking at the issues we have in our own country and help the people here before we begin to spend millions of dollars helping other countries. Everyday thousands of people are dying when they don't have to be due to a lack of medical care. We as a country need to help stop this!
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| Joe VanderVeer | OR |
Email your representative with a few clicks:
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| Pam VanderVeer | OR |
Email your representative quick and easy here:
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| Robert Vestal | ID |
As a healthcare professional, I am dismayed by the failure of Congress to enact legislation that would provide basic comphrensive healthcare for everyone in our country. This is our most pressing domestic issue, and it is time to pass HR 676.
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| Diane Fox | OR |
I haven't been able to see a doctor without insurance and have even been turned away from urgent care facility. My last doctor told e I may have Parkinson's disease but wasn't able to keep helping me because I lost my job and my insurance. The new job I have offers an insurance but it wont cover any pre-existing conditions for one year and then I have to pay out 2500 dollars first.I have been diagnosed with anxiety disorder,depression,fibromyalgia,degenrative disc diseaase, epilepsy, irritable bowel syndrome none of which I can get the medications I need without a doctor. I make 8.00 an hour but due to the job loss in the past I have garnishments taking most of my money so after I pay my rent I have 100.00 per month to live on for food and gas to get to work and toilet paper if I am lucky. I live with chronic bronchitis and beginning symtoms of COPD and am not able to get follow up care. I have hundreds of dollars in urgent care bills that Providence willhave to write off. I am saving the muscle relaxers and pain pills for those extreme moments I just can't take the pain anymore and HAVE TO take them. I am on th everge of losing yet another job due to time missed because of these illnesses and the state of Oregon has reduced my food stamps to 10.00 a month to end soon. I applied for SSI and Social Security benefits but was denied after being sent to government paid physicians and therapists that said They found NOTHING wrong with me. I'd give anything to have them be me for ONE DAY!! They'd shoot themselves as I would if I weren't such a coward. I feel like a leech on society and my family and friends are all that keep me going. I was homeless for six months and slept on my friends couch after I had to have surgery to remove massive cysts that ended in an oopherectomy. The bill were covered by private insurance at that time but I still lost my job and my home as I couldnt go to work having to recoup for six months as they dissected me three layers during the surgery and took samples of evey organ to make sure it wasn't cancer. I didn't returnm to the doctor for my follow ups as my insurance had run out and I owed the doctor 200 dollars plus. I am dying more each day and no hope of help in sight. I had contacted the Family health insurance assistance program and they said they would not evem touch the ins. being offered by my work because it was the sworst they had ever seen but if I wanted to purchase a private insurance they would help me to offset the cost.
So here I sit my body and mind being ravaged day after day with no hope in sight. If my best friend hadn't come to live with me I would be homeless again, out in the street. I went to our local Adult and Family services and they told me that I wasn't eligible for the ORegon Health Plan but turned right around and gave a family of seven illegals money health insuranc and food stamps on MY TAX FOLLAR!!! When I worked at Oregon Health and Sciences University as a Phlebotomist I witnessed illegal aliens having their childrn there and was told to keep my mouth shut. When my daughter had her child there she had to fight the state of ORegon to help her pay for my grand daughte's birth!! My daughter xouldn't get any sort of help after that but these non tax paying people could get it all for FREE!! I am angry and I am in pain. I am SICK an dgetting sicker and no help for me!!
I will do whatever is in my power to help you with your cause youonly need to ask!!! THANK YOU for giving American citizens like me a voice!!
God Bless you now and ALWAYS!!
Diane C. Fox Associates of Science in Health Sciences.
5035444062 (cell)
5034776178 (house)
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| Lucy Zaslow | NY |
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| timothy morris | OR |
its time to take action,and make congress listen to the people, WE THE PEOPLE! thats us . we need healthcare for all, not healthdebt... please i pray for all mankind pass HR-676.
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| Richard Zaslow | NY |
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| Leslie Novak | WA |
We need health care now. After seeing how other industrialized countries take care of their citizens, I see that Americans are just cattle to our leaders. Our leaders are the whores of the fot profit health care insurance companies and if the Amercans law makers can't be concerned with its people,it is time to leave while we can still get out. After seeing Sicko I swore I would get my kids out of this country run by people who live lavish lives while we suffer and die without medical assistance. This is a the ultimate in inhumanity. No better than Hitler.
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| Bruce Hankee | VA |
As a nation that spends trillions of dollars on defense, it is incomprehensible that we cannot support and fund an equitable health care system for all the citizens of this great country. I ask the members of congress to pass bill HR 676.
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| rita stewart | CA |
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| Nayeli Valentinez | IL |
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| Deborah Panitch | NY |
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| Dee Randall | IA |
I go without some medicines because of cost--not because I don't need them!
And some people go without because they have no insurance---
Come on America--let's start caring about each other.
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| Ryan Fonte | OH |
doit, it is right and humane
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| Nicolaas van Diepen | ID |
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| Kristen van Diepen | ID |
It's about time-there a change!!!
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| Michele Shaw | OH |
I think this is a good Organization.
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| Erin Geroy | ID |
This is a vitally important measure that must be passed.
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| Marissa M | OH |
help.people.in.need!
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| Joan Reed | PA |
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| Fox News | CO |
Universal health care breeds terrorists
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/fox-news-universal-health-care-breeds-terrorists/
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| Sarah Sensmeier | SC |
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| rodney morgan | CA |
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| Amber Bollinger | CA |
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| Matt Harding | TX |
Health Care for all!!!
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| Chelsey Vatcoskay | NV |
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| Geoff Wodtke | WI |
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| Rachel Pearson | AZ |
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| Stacy Strickland | CO |
For my mom, diagnosed with a brain tumor, 4 months after losing her job and her health insurance!
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| Jason McDermott | PA |
In this day and age, in the United States of America (the richest nation in the history of the world), free universal healthcare is a basic human right. Any other system is immoral.
For-profit healthcare is immoral and does not work. Free universal healthcare for all!
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| Nicole Knudsen | IL |
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| Jeffrey Einhorn | NY |
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| Gail Brasfield | FL |
We demand better healthcare for all!
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| Etienne Baxter | NY |
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| Katherine Hernandez | PA |
I am horrified by the lastest plan in Massachusetts, which FORCES people to BUY a PRODUCT(so-called health insurance) from huge corporations who have a long history of causing death for profit. Health Insurance is SCAM!
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| Michelle Walker | OR |
We are all ONE. Let's start acting like it.
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| Julie Boney | AZ |
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| Christy Wopat | WI |
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| Brian Wopat | WI |
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| Kate Baldwin | NY |
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| Holly Eschenbrenner | MO |
I am from Missouri, not Alabama.
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| Robert Cardwell | IN |
It is shameful how we treat the sick and disabled.
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| Clyde Alan Locklear | OR |
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| Michael Ballantyne | UT |
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| Jennifer Walker | CA |
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| Danielle Roberts | TX |
My drugs are 7K a month, and insurance covers 75% of the cost, which means the remaining 25% is still beyond unaffordable to me, and I go untreated for my condition. I detest the current healthcare system, and demand that congress looks to the interest of their constituents rather than those of the lobbyists who contributed so much money to their campaigns. That's OUR money that they STOLE from us by denying us the very coverage they exist to provide. THIS BILL MUST PASS!!!
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| David Todd | WI |
Is there no community-based, communal healthcare organization (perhaps a non profit hospital) that you can pay for health insurance on a local level?
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| Steven Miller | MO |
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| arlene Geiger | FL |
Our taxes are being misused by congress. There has to be a congressional debate on the overall purpose and goals of the needs of the people.
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| elyse seigle | CA |
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| Nancy Vandenberg | CA |
Almost everyone in my family has been uninsured at one point in their life, despite working hard and working consistently. We need to have a universal healthcare system in this country NOW! It is the only fair, just and democratic solution.
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| Jacy Cochran | TX |
If my husband, an upper middle-class man, doesn't have access to affordable healthcare, how can someone else with less financial means find healthcare? Something has to change. NOW.
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| Patrick Sarsfield | IL |
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| Thomas Talkowski | CA |
I've always been working and healthy. Aserious accident last year created one half million dollars of medical bills which my former employers plan initially authorized. Now, about 10 months later, they are cancelling my health insurance coverage retro-active to before the accident. I am a physician and know our present health care system from several different perspectives. Our current system is obviously broken beyond repair. Please write your congressman in support of HR 676. Thank you.
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| Anna Williams | CA |
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| Susan Larsen | MD |
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| Eugene Czebiniak | NY |
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| Joseph Brown Jr | OH |
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| Arnie Wadler | CA |
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| Holly Eschenbrenner | AL |
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| Mark Robertson | FL |
This is the most important issue facing our citizens today. It must pass or we need to kick everyone who votes against it out of congress.
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| chris graham | CA |
as you do unto these, the least of my creatures, so you do unto me. who said that?
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| Kenda Robertson | FL |
Let's bring human dignity back into the U.S. equation. Whatever happen to all men are created equal? We can do this. If we all believe and really want it, we can have better health care for everyone. I believe it will happen. I have to.
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| deb kristich | NY |
new york, not alabama is my correct state.
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| deb kristich | AL |
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| Margarita Zaydman | IL |
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| Ken Carlyle | OK |
We the People demand health care for ALL!
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| Michelle Dam | GA |
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| Katie Withrow | VA |
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| Ben Lichtenstein | MA |
This should be a no-brainer. The government of the US must do the right thing and pass this law.
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| Philip Goldman | RI |
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| Joe Running III | OK |
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| Jessica Drake | IL |
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| mark cannon | VA |
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| Caitlyn Kuntz | NJ |
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| Sheila Hirsch | PA |
To our Congress:
Universal Health care is a moral issue and I urge you to pass HR 676.
Thank You,
Sheila Hirsch
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| Scott Metzgar | PA |
I had to file a bankruptcy after recieving bills from the hospital which where not paid by my insurance. I had paid them with credit cards which amounted to about $10,000 and was still paying additional hospital bills after that. Single payer insurance would not have the high deductibles and coinsurance. I would not have to worry about denial of coverage due to my pre-existing condition from a back surgery. After watching Micheal Moore's 'Sicko' I'm even more for a single payer system.
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| Anthony Zeli | ME |
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| DOMINIC SANTACATERINA | FL |
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| MARIO JOHN SANTACATERINA | IL |
I AM WORRIED ABOUT HOW WE IN THE USA WILL PAY FOR FREE HEALTHCARE FOR ALL AMERICANS.
WHAT ABOUT ILLEGAL ALIENS???
I AM TIRED OF PAYING TAXES NOW.---WE ARE TAXED TO DEATH LIKE IN OLD TIMES WHEN ENGLISH RULED HERE.
IF WE HAVE FREE GOV. CONTROLLED HEALTHCARE WHAT WILL THE LIMITATIONS BE AND WILL OUR INCOME AND SALES AND PROPERTY TAXES SKYROCKET???
WITH ALL THAT SAID I THINK WE SHOULD GIVE IT A SHOT . WE PAY THE MOST FOR HEALTHCARE IN ALL THE SUPERPOWER NATIONS. I WANT MY EMPLOYER TO AUTOMATICALLY HAVE TO PROVIDE IT NO MATTER WHAT STATUS OF MY EMPLOYMENT IS W/ THE COMPANY.
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| Sam Sibley | GA |
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| Stephanie Valin | KS |
Is it not a human right to get health care or do only the rich need it?
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| autumn hammons | IL |
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| Kristine Mitchell | OR |
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| Chad Wheeler | VT |
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| suzanne peters | CA |
I think Michael Moore is very compassionate and not only shows it with his heart but actions as well. If our government would wake up to the suffering that goes on in this county over lack of proper medical care, we would be living a happier less stressfull life here in the U.S.
I pray that we as Americans will continue to stand together irregardless if we are democrat or republican. We know in our hearts what is right for this country and what is wrong. Healthcare should be a right not just for the lucky wealthy.It also should not be run by corporations that profit by not giving proper care to all citizens of this country. We pay taxes and some of those should go toward better free health care for everyone. I am saddened by those who could have lived if they were given a chance to get the medical treatment they so needed and my heart goes out to their family and loved ones. Lets stand together as one under the constitution, that all deserve equal adequate care. Treated with dignity and respect when serious illness occurs. I personally went in to get a serious
bacterial infection treated at a near by hospital, all of you should look up mrsa and see what it does, what it looks like and the difficulty it is to treat it. The emergency room doctor I waited for hours came into my room and said he had no time for me and didn`t look at the sores or treat them. The sores then spread and if he had refilled my antibiotics that was clearing it up-it would not have spread from my thigh to my chest. You get this super bug in hospitals and also in the community. The use of too much antibacterial soaps etc. Can cause this bug to become resistant to antibiotics. This is my story and I know ther are many of you that have yours. My prayers go out to you. This is why we must stand up for our rights and not let corporations take over what we as Americans have worked so hard for to build this Country. I am thinking Clinton may be a good canidate. She is strong in her belief in proper free medical care for all.I beleive medical care should be put back into the hands of licensed doctors,not corporate doctors, real people that care for the health and wellbeing of all people. I am proud to be an American, I am sad that I don`t feel represented by our current President although he may think he is doing the right thing, many of our young men fresh out of high school are dying in a war I beleive we don`t belong changing the traditions and way East Indians have peacefully lived.It will take years and years to rebuild what has been destroyed by none peacefull bombs. Children left with no parents, our soldiers killed. We really are one people. All of us want to be loved, have food to eat and a roof over our head.
On this 4th I sit writing this to anyone. Yet in my heart I am sad at the way our country is moving. My wish is we stand together bipartisan and with an open heart. We came into this world with nothing and will leave with nothing. In the mean time as we live out our lives, I feel that if there are so many suffering from lack of medical care and the way people are put in private prisons and left with no one to represent them, I just have a hard time cheering over fire works and watching the colors fly in the sky when those that speak for themselves are left behind.Lets take care of eachother, give a dollar to someone who needs a quart of milk, visit the sick and give without expecting anything in return. This earth is the only one we have, lets take care of it and respect it. Open the doors of oppotunity for kids to get a good college education. I can`t imagine paying a million dollars to purchase a home. Even a quarter of a million to live in a small house. With minimum wage how can anyone afford a home. My thoughts leave it here. Anyone want to e-mail me, I certainly will respond. God Bless. Sue
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| Al Shakar | IL |
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| Gary Gilzeane | NY |
There are no words to describe the horror I felt when I watched that movie.
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| Lynette Mottley | NY |
After watching sicko, I am so ashamed of the U.S. government. 9/11 workers had to go to another country to be treated. I do not know how much lower it can go. If they do not care for them, then who are we to expect anything better from them.
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| Roxanne Gilzeane | NY |
As a healthcare professional, I find it very appauling that insurance companies are allowed to let people die without any consequences. At some point the insurance company have to stop thinking about the money that is going in their pockets, but the lives that they are destroying in the process. I battle insurance companies everyday at my job. One thing I can say is I fight for the patients to get the tests that they need.
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| Ashley Marallo | MT |
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| Jill Clayton | NJ |
The time is now for Universal Health Care for all citizens of the United States of America. It is just shameful that we are listed 37th in the world and that the U.S. medical system discriminates against those less fortunate than others, resulting in death for profits!
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| Patrick Dunn | IL |
Health care is a basic need shared by all human beings. If there is any service that a government is responsible for providing to its citizens, it is this one.
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| Brenna McBroom | FL |
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| EJ Krause | GA |
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| Robert Peters | CA |
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| Carol Powley | NH |
Note to politicians: If you want to get voted into office, then make universal health care a reality. It is sickening that so many people in this country cannot get the services they need, whether they are insured or not. Our health care system is a disaster, and the government, which is bought and paid for by the pharma lobbyists and the HMO's, should be ashamed of themselves. And that goes for you, too, Hillary. Shame, shame on you! You won't be getting my vote!
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| Christopher Koehler | MI |
Not only do we need universal health care, we need health care that allows the choice of so-called "alternative medicines." Abolish for profit health insurance. Regulate the pharmaceuticals. De-privatize the hospitals. Disband Codex Alimentarius. NOW!
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| Raymond A. Andreasen | NY |
All I am saying is give health care a chance.
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| Ryan Anderson | IL |
I really hope that enough people will petition for this bill to be passed. Feel free to send me any information that I could use to help get the word out and get people to sign a petition. This is important to me and should be to everyone.
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| Paul Miller | MA |
The U.S. healthcare system is one of the most tragic and embarrassing systems of denying people healthcare and keeping some people rich that I can imagine.
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| Andrew Habich | IL |
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| George Gilliland | NY |
Please support H.R. 676. Thank-You.
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| Milosz Trudnos | NJ |
Sicko to Sanity
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| Mike Frazier | ID |
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| Rebecca Abernathy | GA |
If other countries in the world can make universal healthcare work, the US should be able to also. Period.
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| Mike Wei | MN |
The United States is the only western industrialized democracy left on the face of this earth who has yet to provide its citizens with the right of health care for all
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| Joy Worden | WA |
I am a poor college student suffering from depression and uninsured. I have been suffering from depression for my entire life and just recently decided to get medical help for it. In a months time I have over $1000 in medical bills. I am fortunate enough to have parents who are willing to help me out financially, but I know others are not so lucky. We profess to be a country that is based on principles such as everyone's right to the pursuit of happiness, but when people are dying from curable medical conditions simply because our politicians are bought out by corporations, it sickens me. On the day that others are commemorating our Nation's Independence I myself am wishing that I was a citizen of Canada.
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| Irving Lee | NY |
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| Richard Graham | VA |
I have 50 years advertising/marketing and PR experience I'd like to put behind this effort
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| Laura Furst | IN |
I think it is hight time that we care about all Americans. If we cannot all have basic healthcare, it is not right for others to get boob jobs, lipo etc... Yeah I know- kinda socialist- but really about fairness. Just because my job offers no insurance or I don't make as much per hour or per year, or because I could not find a job in my career field does not mean that I work less hard than those making the most. I work just as hard- just for less...
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| Christine Martin | CA |
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| joseph rzeszutko | IL |
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| Ashley LoBuglio | GA |
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| John Egerton | CA |
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| Shawna Jaggard | WA |
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| Curt Underwood | MI |
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| Carri Underwood | MI |
Let's make this happen!! Our future's depend on it!
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| Kristy Gaynor | IL |
It angers me that people die because they can't afford healthcare or expensive surgeries that insurance won't cover. I never understand why insurance won't cover something. It's part of your paycheck. What gives the insurance company the right to say insurance doesn't cover this??? And my family used to be on the green card until my dad got a job with the absolute worst insurance. We shell out more money for this piece of crap insurance and get nothing from it. Get this-my dad's pills cost 3 dollars more WITH the insurance than it would without. That makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER!! I thought insurance was supposed to cause you to pay LESS not MORE! I hate our healthcare system and our country would be a lot better if we were more like Canada and every other country in this world with universal health care. Kids shouldn't have to die waiting for transplants just because their parents can't afford to pay for the operation or insurance won't cover it. Insurance companies shouldn't refuse to cover a child's congenital heart disease and claim it as a pre-exisiting condition because she (or he) was born with it. Everybody should be entitled to healthcare and not be turned away because of their inability to pay. THis country needs universal healthcare. PERIOD!
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| Michele Long | KY |
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| Alexander Brown | PA |
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| Julia Brown | PA |
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| Charles Dutch | MO |
Let's make universal healthcare an inalienable right instead of just merely a privilege of wealth. "E pluribus unum", our national motto, is written on the great seal of the United States and it means "one made out of many". I think that a national single payer healthcare system exemplifies the meaning of that motto. We ought to be able to say that in the US, everyone gets taken care of, each according to his needs and that we all pitch in to help out the less fortunate. There is no other healthcare delivery system I can think of that is capable of providing for the very poor and the very rich and everyone in between other than a national healthcare system. As an RN, I have worked in hospitals for 13 years and watched the steady decline in the population's general health, in available services and the ever increasing cost of medical expenses. But I can tell you, illness doesn't care whether you are rich or poor, young or old, black or white or a good or bad person. A poor person with cancer needs exactly the same treatment as a rich person. The conundrum is that the poor person is less likely to get proper care because he or she is less able to afford it, and has less resources to devote to fighting the insurance companies for coverage. This is a grave injustice and ought be redressed by concerned citizens coming together "peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." I'm in. I'll help. Here's my 30 bucks, where's my sign? I will fight for healthcare for all Americans.
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| Teresa Harper | TN |
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| Susan Holt-Harris | NY |
the singlemost source of stress in my life is the cost of health care for myself and my children. We are currently uninsured and I worry about it constantly.PLEASE let me know what I can do to further this agenda
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| Katia Espinal | FL |
I was sad and horrified when I saw the movie Sicko, it trully broke my heart to see that in such a country like the US attrocities like these are committed. As I watched the movie it made me think how our president pretends to care for his own people when in reality he doesn't. It is time that we wake up and give the respect that all US citizens deserve in this country. What I saw in the movie it is not what our ancestors envisioned hell no. All citizens deserve the best medical care we can receive.
Sincerely,
katia...
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| Mark Carmel | FL |
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| Jennie Sepe | IL |
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| Mal Gormley | ME |
We need this NOW!!!! Please!
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| Ellen Sundstrom | TX |
I have progressed through the patient care provider system as a Certified Nurse Assistant, Licensed Practical Nurse, Licensed Vocational Nurse, Registered Nurse, and, now, a Family Nurse Practitioner.
I work in areas of Dallas, Texas where health care and dental care is unattainable. These people, adults and children alike, do not have a place to live, clothing to wear, and little food to eat. As for education, it is an extremely ineffective system in Texas - fraught with stealing and educationally challenged instructors.
These are the people who are supposed to take care of us in our later years? HOW CAN THIS BE?
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| Andrea Meyer | CA |
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| Timothy Lynch | PA |
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| Patricia Anderson | NM |
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| Patricia Anderson | NM |
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| Elizabeth Island | PA |
After seeing Sicko, I am ashamed of myself and the people who govern our country. When did money become so much more important than human life and the quality of human life? I will not vote for anyone who does not support universal health care and a change in the insurance and drug industries.
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| Katie Mariategui | NC |
HEALTH IS A HUMAN RIGHT!!!
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| Bruce Costello | CA |
The sooner the better
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| Melissa Del Valle | CA |
i hope everyone will keep this important issue in mind when elections role around in 2008...lets move to reform healthcare!!!
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| Nicole Lewon | CA |
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| Jerry Shaver | CA |
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| robert poole | AL |
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| Scott Trimble | TX |
It is entirely unacceptable that the government of any supposedly democratic nation should be allowed to entirely neglect the health and well-being of its citizenry for so long. We cannot continue to make excuses, or let ourselves be bullied by the insurance companies and Big Pharma. If it takes a revolution, we must have a national, single-payer health care program. We MUST!
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| Tom Sullivan | MI |
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| Kelly Kestner | IL |
I am ashamed of the United States.
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| steve walworth | CA |
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| Jean Myrner | CA |
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| david fortier | WA |
please reform our health care for our country, i would love to see quality healthcare for all, no questions asked!!!! raise my taxes, please , we need this!!!
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| Rachel kaplan | NY |
Let us care about each other enough to allow this civil liberty
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| Javier Bonilla | NY |
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| Laura Flores | CA |
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| helen papesh-major | NV |
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| Nick Boyes | CO |
I saw Sicko and it opened up my eyes. I just wish we all could band together to fix the issue.
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| Ginger Miller | NY |
Health care is greatly needed for all citizens.
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| Sari Levy | CO |
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| jessica cruz | FL |
Not just for me but for my children, my children's children, etc.
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| rochelle nathan | CA |
my husband and i are senior citizens our medications are astronomically costly in the event that either of us require skilled nursing care at a facility we would have to forgoe necessary medications in order to meet those financial obligations
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| rochelle nathan | CA |
the movie was powerful and enlightening. i am a senior citizen my husband & i have astronomical drug costs in spite of medicare and blue cross however in the event either one of us becomes permanenyly disabled we will have to forego medications in order to pay for skilled nursing care at a facility we cannot afford
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| Frank Cava | VA |
Thank you for your work.
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| Ann Runyon | VA |
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| Steve Sutton | VA |
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| Laura Barbre | VA |
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| Leisha Phipps | TX |
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| brandon stewart | GA |
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| Jeffery Stewart | GA |
My grandson was a preemie 9 years ago. he has been decline from all insurance health plans and his mom make 2k too much to qualify for Medicaid. What a pity this country is. He has a ventricular device in his brain and can't get it out. But we can kill over 3k soldiers and many Iraqis for a massive amount of funds, but can't insure children...pitiful... to say the least
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| Martha Morris | MI |
Thank you for your work.
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| Manuel Linares | CA |
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| Miguel Perez | CA |
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| Marc Ardizzone | RI |
If we can spend billions of dollars a week killing people in an unnecessary and ill-conceived war, why not spend a few billion more helping our own?
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| Marlene Perez | CA |
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| Karen Linares | CA |
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| Beverly Ludders | ID |
It's about time!
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| Bart Patchin | UT |
The time is now to end this madness and make a sane decision to opt for single payer healthcare for all.What are we afraid of? it cant be any worse,only better. Ask any Canadian if they would trade their health insurance for ours.
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| Joe Pesci | NJ |
Goodfellas!
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| Rebekah Levy | CO |
How can we call ourselves a free country if no American is free to quit a job, go back to school, or start our own business without the threat of going without health care? If our government can't provide us with these freedoms by guaranteeing health care for all then they should lose their mandate to govern.
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| Stacey McNiell | TN |
I am a 23 year old college student who has to choose between going to the dentist and paying my rent. I sometimes worry about my health and know that my body is displaying certain symptoms that NEED to be addressed by a physician before they get worse, but I cannot afford to go. The idea of being injured or becoming sick is terrifying because I know my sub par health insurance would do little to help and would probably eek their way out of paying for anything, leaving my in financial ruin, indebted for the rest of my life... America the great?
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| Julien Koetsch | NY |
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| Rhonda Graf | WI |
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| Scott Catey | FL |
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| Nezer Boakye | FL |
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| Madeline Algiers | CA |
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| Chris Meyer | CT |
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| Judy Moody | GA |
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| Sara Mossman | CA |
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| terrence blake | VA |
common sense says please support this bill.
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| Laura Dansby | VA |
Why is there always money for war and not for basic health care? Every member of Congress should be required to sit down and view Michael Moore's Sicko.
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| Melinda DeAugustines | NJ |
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| Silvia Beltramini | CA |
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| John Olson | VT |
It is outrageous that $2 TRILLION is collected every year from 250 Million individuals and employers and redistributed to a relatively few investors and executives of insurance & pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, and healthcare specialists making way over $1 Billion. And the majority still live in fear of bankruptcy if they get sick or injured. We need health CARE for all, not just health INSURANCE for all. Remove the profit motive for the few and improve health outcomes for all! Just like the rest of the civilized Western nations.
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| victoria bolkhovitina | NJ |
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| Zakira Luna | VA |
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| Kimberly Erskine | NJ |
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| Steve Athey | VA |
My Premiuumns constantly go up to th epoint of not being able to afford them out of pockect.
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| John-Paul Briones | VA |
The government doesn't want to fix health care because it keeps the military enlistment up, and rich government officials are the ones profiting from poor Americas! This has taken the place of factory slavery.
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| CATHIE ROCKWOOD | FL |
If this was for a raise or increased pension for Congress it would be a done deal. When will the public be considered instead of just politics?
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| Suzanne Haban | PA |
It is a disgrace that other countries have come up with a solution for universal health care and this GREAT country of the United States of America cannot take care of the medical needs of our own people. I am ashamed of our own negligence. I fully support this bill and URGE CONGRESS, our ELECTED leaders, to represent us in this goal. The need for medical care crosses gender, racial, and socioeconomic boundaries. Help us help everyone. If we can find money to kill people, we can find money to help people. I would rather see this implemented in less than 15 years, but 15 years is better than NEVER. Also, what good will new technological advances do anyone if health care companies can deny people "experimental" treatments? We should do whatever possible to save every American's life. We have always prided ourselves as a country of great progress. A healthy American is more productive to society and can continue to benefit our country. Help us to progress toward a more healthy future. It just makes sense.
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| Kevin Benoit | IL |
Stop the corporate greed; lend a helping hand to all; rebuild society
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| Shayna Gober | TX |
My daughter and I were watching a documentary yesterday on women who were abandonned by thier families becase the were widowed. We were both upset by this. My daghter said to me "But what can I do I am only one person." It made me think we can make a difference in anything if we are willing to try. This is my first act to step up and make a change in this world. I want to be an example for my 9 year old daughter to follow. Thank you.
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| Marleen Hustead | PA |
15 years is too long for phasing universal health care in. We need it ASAP. And these compromise plans are just that...compromises to our health as a nation. I work as hard as anyone else, as a grad student, tutoring low-income minority college students, and at various part-time jobs. (meaning, no insurance.) I used to work on a farm, helping to grow organic food for people to eat. Yet, because my employer couldn't offer me health insurance, I had to pay almost a week's pay each month for insurance that turned out to be more like catastrophic coverage. Is my contribution to our society less important than that of someone who works at a full-time corporate job? Do I have to sacrifice a creative career so I can have healthcare?
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| Diane Broze | OH |
I always thought I lived in the best country. After seeing what others are enjoying in Canada, France, England and even Cuba regarding health care, I can hardly believe I'm feeling like we live in an impovrished country! A country by the people and FOR the people. Let's get back to basics!
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| Allison Millican | FL |
Stop the greed. Stop the madness, treat the world and this country with the respect it's due. Make Health care for all a reality NOW.
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| Daniel Newcomb | FL |
WE NEED A NATIONAL HEALTH CARE PROGRAM!
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| Jason Milli | IN |
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| Al Dahler | VA |
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| Andre Dahler | VA |
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| Avis Dahler | VA |
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| Allison Selmon, RN, BSN | MO |
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| Sarah Morrison | PA |
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| Sarah Morrison | PA |
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| Amy Garrett | AZ |
Our health care system is broken. HR 676 is a step in fixing it. Please support this bill.
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| Jonathan Wheeler | UT |
I have been Type 1 diabetic for the last 18 years. When I turned 24, I was no longer covered under my parents insurance, and since I have a preexisting condition, I will never be able to get insurance to cover the cost of the supplies I need. Without the help of my parents, I would not be able to get the necessary supplies needed to take care of this condition. Please sign this bill into law, so I don't need to worry about what would happen if I couldn't get the medications needed to keep me alive.
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| wara pineiro | FL |
As an American Citizen I demand that our broken health care system be re-structured into a universal health care system immediately for the wealfare of our countries citizens.
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| Christopher Pierson | MI |
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| Hasha Sheen | CA |
Its really sad that we spend so much money on an unnessary war, when people like my mother get stage 4 cancer that has spread throughout her body, because the county hospital kept telling her she had nothing when she was suffering for years.We need to make a change. There needs to be empathy for those less fortune in our country we need to care of each other.
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| Timothy Kosturko | NJ |
It's time to trash the current health care system....It stinks!
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| Stephen Morrissey | FL |
If a government should do anything, it shuold do this
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| Jennifer Sauer | OH |
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| Julia Curns | IL |
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| Paul DOnovan | CT |
Universal Health & Peace !
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| Jason Henrichs | IA |
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| Ron & Cheryl Marlin | MO |
We back HR676. All Americans should be covered by medical and dental coverage.The drug companies and healthcare corporations are getting rich -- American healthcare is getting pathetic. Insurance companies are racketteering and cheating healthcare members and getting by with it. We need national healthcare NOW.
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| Yasmeen Sokol | CO |
It is immoral and unethical for companies to be making a profit on healthcare. They need to be stopped and the US needs to implement free healthcare for all citizens regardless of race or income. The goverment works for the citzens of its country not the other way around.
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| Elizabeth Newkirk | IL |
It is about time that the government start working and governing for the people rather than shallow endeavors for themselves. Not only should this be entitled to us, the government is totally deserving of charges for murder, fraud, and theft for all of the people they have denied health care, adequate coverage, and ridiculous premiums. This is a step to reinstate democracy and put the power in the hands of the people.
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| Alexandra Stabrawa | CA |
Dear Congress- Please stop the scare tactics, hypocrisy and propaganda of the government today and LISTEN to the people of the United States of America. We are informed, we know what is going on and we will no longer be duped into an out-dated false sense of fear of "socialism". Give this country the right to call itself Great once again. Be a country OF the people, not against. Let us once and for all truly be United.
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| Gretchen Dudik | NJ |
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| Rachel McCroy | NY |
If a nation should be called great, it should do great and we aren't by not treating all citizens with equal health care.
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| Joshua Kleier | TX |
We want only to be as good as the countries that HAVE National Healthcare systems!
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| Kristen Barrett | IL |
I have 2 pre-existing conditions which force me to work a job I hate in order to get health insurance - otherwise I would be uninsurable. My healthcare costs without insurance have in the past exceeded 40% of my income.
My husband is self-employed and we cannot afford to get him health insurance. We hope every day that he is not injured or stricken ill. We have been very lucky so far.
This situation is so common and is absolutely unacceptable, especially in a country with this wealth. Yet our situation cannot be remedied under our current system - we are not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid and too young for Medicare. Something needs to be done.
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| Martin Mccurdy | OR |
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| Miranda Davis | TN |
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| Patricia Bennett | FL |
Let's get it done. We are one of the only country's that does not have universal health
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| Jenifer Morris | VA |
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| Luis Sanchez | NJ |
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| Ron Hoglund | NJ |
Dear Congress-
Please support universal health coverage for ALL Americans. Support H.R. 676. We are the nly industrialized country that doesn't take care of its citizens and this makes me sad to be an American.
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| dayna bernstein | NM |
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| Wendy Merckel | CT |
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| David LaForest | WI |
I ask that HR676 be passed so that all Americans can access Health Care. Each year health costs continue to skyrocket. Each year the drug companies, and insurance companies continue to post enormous profits. Lets bring affordable coverage for all to the U.S., the last industrialized nation on earth that does not provide for all its citizens.
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| Brian Bullock | MD |
With MILLIONS of uninsured Americans, this issue is critical to the health of Americans as a people. But, not only is it critical to Americans, it is critical to the economic well-being of American companies. Healthcare is a substantial drain on company profits, and inhibits the competitiveness of American business. Universal healthcare is the right thing to do for America and for Americans.
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| Margaret Cox | NY |
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| Jerry Culberson | AL |
The profit motive for Insurance companies, Pharmacy companies, Lobbist, and Trial Lawyers is depriving almost 50% of America's citizens from being able to afford basic health care.
The fact that the United States is rated as 39th
on the list of nations providing health care to it's citizens is a disgrace. We should be in the top 3 at least. I support bill HR-676 and those in congress that do. The time for Universal Healthcare is NOW....
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| Joseph Tristano | NJ |
this is a problem that needs immediate attention.
i will not vote for any canidate which continues this lack of compassion for the nations uninsured and underinsured. I will also be pro-active in gathering information on public officials who ignore this horrendous problem and pass it along to other voters. this old approach of taking advantage of the system will end. thanks.
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| Tara Laxson | TX |
I am a 34 year old married mother of two. We are drowning in medical bills and insurance premiums. We pay $550 per month to Unicare and BCBS for coverage that includes a $5,000 deductible per person. My son recently underwent surgery to have tubes placed in his ears and an embryonically formed brachial cyst removed from his neck. Including our deductible and copay, we owe over $7,000. Our country needs a new system of healthcare, one that provides quality care for everyone.
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| Beverlee Bennett | MO |
I'm a senior citizen, that has Medicare, but this does not insure me for dental. When my husband passed away, I lost dental insurance coverage, through his retirement pension. Currently having problems with my teeth and my monthly income doesn't come close to what it will cost me to have the dental procedure done. I've already paid over $7000.00 getting my teeth worked on.
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| Ann Rasmussen | OR |
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| Drew Barnett-Hamilton | CA |
There is no reason to not provide health care to all. Though we claim to be a progressive, leading country; we spend our money on war and not on our own people. We are the only industialized western country without univeral health care!!!
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| Hunter Presnell | KY |
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| airah ty | CA |
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| Jaime Davis | PA |
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| Gail Kiracofe | VA |
I'm paying $300 a month for 'medigap' insurance. It's too much! We need this!
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| Mark Tyra | NM |
My grandfather had to work while he had cancer to try and cover the drug costs for him and my grandmother (who was debilitated after a stroke). I cannot think of a more perverse system than what we have now. Please support automatic health coverage for all Americans.
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| Nicole Bennett | FL |
For the richest country in the world, with the most potential and opportunities, healthcare should be just as good as our public education system and postal service.
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| Athena McElrath | WA |
I'm a type I insulin-dependent diabetic with NO health insurance. Pass this important bill NOW!
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| David Dowdell | KY |
We can't keep doing the same thing and expect a different result. The healthcare system is broken. The government should serve the people...not corporate profits.
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| Dana Dold-Brown | MO |
This would be some of the best news I've heard in a while for the American people. As a uninsured American I look forward to this bill being passed. I was laid off from my job with two months left in my pregnancy with my second child and I definitely know what it means to not have health insurance. Let's make America #1 instead of #37!
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| Corinne Holt | KY |
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| Amanda Kramer | CT |
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| Deanna New | IN |
Why should US citizens continue to fall behind in healthcare?
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| Matasha Joelette Green | FL |
Please support and pass universal healthcare so that all Americans, not just the poor and rich, can be covered when they or their loved ones are sick.
thank you
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| Nick Marshall-Butler | CT |
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| Jennifer Redwitz | OH |
Healthcare is my number 1 domestic issue. It is shocking that so many Americans go uninsured or underinsured each year. We need to do something to ensure the right of all citizens to equitable health care.
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| Brian New | IN |
I fully support HR-676. Our health care system should be care-driven and not profit-driven. We are the only free-market democracy that does not yet recognize health care as a basic human right!
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| MacKenzie Fillow | MI |
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| John Gerwig | MN |
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| Eddie Massello | WA |
We need this! Also, you don't have DC listed as a state.
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| christopher pyrdsa | PA |
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| Pedro Barreto | FL |
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| Beryl Solla | VA |
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| Rebecca Barreto | FL |
I am all for a national health plan for the CITIZENS of this country as long as everyone is able to afford it. I only pay $26 a week for my husband and myself and I have excellent medical coverage. My concern is the millions of citizens in this country that do not have health insurance not because their employer doesn't offer it but because the premiums are too high. And what about all of the illegal immigrants in this country that receive medical attention without the ability or responsibility to pay? Who is going to pay for that? I think before they impose a national health plan, we need to get our arms around the immigration problem first, i.e. deport them all and make them re-enter the legal way if they want to become citizens of the is great nation.
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| Stacy Kumar | KY |
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| Sanjay Kumar | KY |
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| Sara Orrys | MI |
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| Timothy Orrys | MI |
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| Eva de Francisco | MD |
ACT NOW!
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| Irene Budoff | GA |
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| Julia Perry | AZ |
A strong nation must have strong and healthy population! National Healthcare NOW
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| Joseph McLauhlin | PA |
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| Alexander Rexroad | CA |
America deserves a single-payor health care program. All Americans deserve health care.
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| tanja reutimann | CA |
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| Lauren Timmons | NY |
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| Doreen DeRouanna | PA |
I am an RN who is behind national single payor healthcare for all.
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| Anna Tumolo | MD |
We DESERVE better! We DEMAND better! Universal healthcare is not impossible. We can do this! Let's stop the greed and start taking care of each other please!
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| Kathleen Chicvh | PA |
I was once one of the nearly 50 million people without coverage. Health should be one of our top priorities as a nation. If there is a single payer system, people would be less likely to die because they would not have to worry about the cost of medical care.
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| Ronald Shuman | IL |
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| Karen Westerfeld | NY |
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| Connie Vaughan | TX |
I am in favor of equal health care for everyone. Both my parents are ill and there are so many things we do not qualify for because my father did what he was suppose to...he saved for retirement. They are middle class and would of had a comfortable retirement, but unfortunately my father has alzheimers and my mom had a stroke. They deserve what other get for free that did not save money for retirement.
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| Jennifer Godman | CA |
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| Hubert Flomenhoft | FL |
The profit motive is important to stimulate innovation and entreneurship, but it is counter- productive when safety or quality is at stake. A health system based on the profit motive has become a danger to the security and well-being of the citizens of this country. The time has come for everyone to participate in a system that will care for those in need for proper health care.
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| Vickie Bicknell | KS |
Our country should provide a national health care program that will provide guaranteed affordable health care and prescription drugs to everyone in the country. The only industrialized country in the Western world that does not do this.....Shame on our government.
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| michelleq tobias | FL |
It is not just the low income families that need help. It seems that low income families are covered and encouraged to be low income for the health coverage. Middle class is getting hit with down sizing, using up all of their saving to help get them back on their feet. We lost everything from a down size and now we are starting over. What can you do to protect the middle class that lost everything due to a down size, including loss of saving and insurance. We have children that our left without insurance unable to participate in sports because of the fear of the children being hurt. America is being controlled by profit and greed. We are not watching out for each other. While some of Americans are living it up with huge profit the rest of us are going to bed each night crying and praying that nothing bad happens to our families during our long misfortune of bouncing back or finding our way back on track. It should be illegal how pharm companies work to persuade doctors with bribes of dinners and starbuck coffee to get the doctors to push their drugs. Please do what is right for American's and their children. The world is watching and we lead by example.
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| Adam DiCarlo | OR |
I am willing to pay more taxes for it. Please give us universal health care and help us be proud of our country.
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| Erin Orchard | IA |
Thank you for organizing this petition and website. We need every voice we can get.
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